The Last Spike: the Great Railway, 1881-1885
“The little village, perched on the rim of a narrow bank at the head of Burrard Inlet, was basking in the glow of optimism brought on by the unquenchable belief that it was to become the greatest metropolis on the Pacific coast. Until the summer of 1882, the site had been unbroken forest. When Van Horne arrived – with ships emptying their holds of steel rails, with the new railway terminal wharf heaped with supplies, with streets being hacked out of the bush and gangs of men at work grading the ...track towards Yale – the community was enjoying a mild boom.“Port Moody … has no rival,” exclaimed the Gazette, the settlement’s pioneer newspaper. “There is no place upon the whole coast of British Columbia that can enter into competition with it … these declarations are sweeping but incontrovertible.”The paper could hardly wait for Van Horne to arrive in order that the new metropolis could be laid out. It reported that the general manager would decide on the construction of a sea-wall as well as a new wharf, station houses, roundhouses, and machine and blacksmith shops.MoreLess
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